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Newscuttings on India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 324
Scope and Contents
Chronological series of newscuttings concerning India.
Dates:
1906 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on Jamaica and Hong Kong
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 48
Scope and Contents
Newscuttings relating to O'Malley's period as Attorney-General in Jamaica, 1876-1879, and Hong Kong, 1884-1886, 232 pages.
Dates:
1876 - 1886
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on Kenya
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 331
Scope and Contents
Newscuttings from 'The East Africa Standard' and 'The Kenya Observer', and several from 'The Times'. The cuttings concern Kenyan government and political issues, including Indian claims, labour issues, land tenure and Legislative Council sessions. There is also news from other parts of Africa and from outside the continent. In some cases the dates of the newscuttings have been supplied by the cataloguer in pencil where they were missing.
Dates:
1923-04-14 - 1925-11-25
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on New Zealand immigration
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 307
Scope and Contents
A newspaper cuttings book originating from New Zealand, containing articles on immigration to New Zealand, 1849 and 1850; letters to newspaper editors, 1852; and articles and letters on the settlement of New Zealand, 1866-1868. There are also a few articles on immigration to Van Diemen's Land, Australia, New Brunswick, California, Natal and Chile. The latter discusses the 1868 South American earthquake. Some of the cuttings are mounted on loose cardboard. Near the back of the book are a...
Dates:
1849 - 1868
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on Royal Visit to South Africa, 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 335
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of articles regarding the Royal Tour of 1947 taken from editions of four South African newspapers.
Dates:
2004
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on South East Asia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 326
Scope and Contents
Articles and photographs regarding Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, taken from newspapers and other publications. The first half of the scrapbook is devoted to photographs. There are a few maps, including some of South East Asia. These are followed by photographs relating mainly to the domestic economy, including batik, cinchona (quinine), coffee, copra, fishing, rice, rubber, salt, sugar, tea, teak, tobacco and woodcarving. There are also general photographs of market scenes and...
Dates:
1947 - 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on Southern and East Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 332
Scope and Contents
Four volumes of newscuttings, three relating to Southern and East Africa and one to the Native Question in South Africa, and loose cuttings on related subjects. Many of the articles concern the activities of the colonial powers in Africa, notably Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France.
Dates:
1883 - 1932
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on the Boer War
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 336
Scope and Contents
Five volumes of newscuttings from 'The Daily Mail', 'The Daily Telegraph', The Morning Post' and 'The Times' regarding the Boer War, including a few maps, and a volume of general newscuttings relating to areas where Powell worked during his career.
Dates:
1883 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on the Royal Visit to Nigeria, 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 133
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks of newcuttings from the Nigerian and British Press relating to the Royal Visit.
Dates:
1956
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on the Straits Settlements
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 325
Scope and Contents
A scrapbook of cuttings from newspapers of the Straits Settlements concerning events in the colony. Much of the volume is concerned with Brown's involvement with the Legislative Council. There are articles regarding his disputed nomination by the Penang Chamber of Commerce in 1893, and his appointment to the Council in 1894 and 1897. There is also extensive coverage of the Council’s work, including newscuttings on the passage of bills regarding harbours, Indian immigration, liquor, opium...
Dates:
1882 - 1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on the Uganda disturbances
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 181
Scope and Contents
Cuttings from various publications on the 1892 disturbances, some in French and German with typescript translations. There is a note at the front by H.B. Thomas, October 1968: 'Formerly in Secretariat Library, Entebbe, Uganda, used by Margery Pelham when writing "Lugard, the years of adventure"'.
Dates:
1892 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Newscuttings on Uganda
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 329
Scope and Contents
A scrapbook of newscuttings and a set of pamphlets regarding religion and politics in Uganda. The collection is in English with the exception of a few items in the Ganda language. There is an accompanying letter from D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, to the Revd Welbourn, 23 October 1978, regarding the gift of the collection to the Society.
Dates:
1960 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Newspapers and notices: General Strike of 1926, Installation of Prince Albert in 1847 and instructions for civilians from 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9742
Scope and Contents
Complete or partial copies of editions of The British Gazette, The British Worker, Sevenoaks Chronicle and the Daily Mail from 1926, along with public notices regarding the strikes; extracts from The Pictorial Times and The Illustrated London News 1847, regarding the installation of Prince Albert at Cambridge, along with a sketch of the coronation fête on Parker's Piece; and 'Instructions for the Guidance of the Civil Population in the event of a landing by the Enemy in this Country' for the...
Dates:
1926
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Newspapers on Royal Visit to Nigeria, 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 327
Scope and Contents
Editions of four newspapers containing articles on the Royal Visit.
Dates:
1956-01-12 - 1956-02-17
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Niccolo Donato: Storia della Repubblica di Venezia
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7332
Dates:
1764
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Bernard: Life and Death of James Usher, London, and Jeremy Taylor: Sermon at the Funeral of John [Bramhall], Archbishop of Armagh, London.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2716.12
Scope and Contents
Extracts.
Dates:
1670 (Circa.)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Darnell Davis collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259
Scope and Contents
Davis had a life-long interest in the history of the West Indies and more specifically of Barbados, and this collection comprises a vast body of material gathered by him from archives in Britain, the Caribbean and Europe. He contributed many historical articles to newspapers and periodicals in British Guiana [Guyana], Barbados and the United States. His intention to compose a comprehensive history of the West Indies was frustrated by ill health. Titles and captions, including the names of...
Dates:
1752 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Fernandez de Moratin: Arte de Putear
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7813
Scope and Contents
A seventy-six page poetic work with 23-26 lines per page. At the back of the volume is a wrapper of 'papel sellado' dated 1822. The date of the wrapper suggests that the manuscript was one of the papers used by the editor of Moratin's Obras postumas (Barcelona, 1821), although it does not appear in that edition, and is apparently unpublished.
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Maw: Carol ''Sweté Jesu'', for King's College Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9239
Scope and Contents
Maw set anonymous 13th century words 'Sweté Jesu' 'for the choir of King's College Cambridge and their conductor Stephen Cleobury'
Dates:
1992
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Roscarrock: 'A Breife Regester or Alphabeticall Catalogue of such Saincts and sainte like persons as have graced our Island of Great Brittaine Ireland and other British Iselands'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3041
Scope and Contents
(fos 1-5: only fos 3-5 remaining, contents of missing leaves displayed in index at fo. 12) introductory matter; (fos 6-11) calendar of saints; index to fos 1-11 at fo. 12; (fos 13-14) notes on feasts and holy days; (fos 15-23) alphabetical table of saints in the 'Catalogue'; (fo. 24r) title page and sonnet to the reader; (fo. 24v) verse 'friendly warining to the reader'; (fo. 25) preface; (fos 1-402) lives of saints, alphabetically to Simon Sudbury. MS damaged and incomplete. Sources for...
Dates:
1622 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Saunderson: A Treatise of Fluxions
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3444
Scope and Contents
fo. 5: shorthand note in pencil; fo. 5v: diagram; fo. 1: 'John Hall, Bought Clerk's Sale 1833.' Text written on every other leaf, alternate leaves either carrying diagrams or left blank. Printed as pp. vii-128 of Saunderson's Method of Fluxions, London, 1756.
Dates:
1738
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Saunderson: Lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2977
Scope and Contents
Notes on Sanderson's lectures in the hand of William Haswell. Includes: lectures on hydrostatics, sounds, optics (with others), mechanics, astronomy, tides, technical chronology, and the doctrine of heat and cold. With (fo. 128) copy of letter from James Bate to Hans Deveille, 3 Jan. 1726
Dates:
1725 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Nicholas Saunderson: Lectures
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6312
Scope and Contents
A series of lectures on the tides and other scientific subjects delivered by Professor Saunderson, 125 folios. On fo. iv is an extract relating to Horace Walpole and Saunderson. The versos are mostly blank, but have occasional diagrams. (Fo. iv) 'T. Aynscough, Coll. Joh. Cant., 1737'; (fo. 1) 'Lectures on the Tides'; (fo. 9) 'Of the Ascent and Suspension of Liquors in Capillary Tubes'; (fo. 19) 'Of the Ascent and Suspension of Mercury in the Barometer'; (fo. 24) 'Of the Prolate Sphaeroidical...
Dates:
1737
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Nicholas Saunderson: MS notes on his lectures on Fluxions
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9772
Dates:
1730-1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Shackleton Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/3540/CLH/SHAC
Scope and Contents
Mainly a collection of medals and trophies belonging to Nicholas Shackleton and also his father, Robert Millner Shackleton. There are also several certificates, some books and a painting of Shackleton by Nick Toller (2000).
Dates:
1950 - 2006
Found in:
Clare Hall Archives